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For a player as talented as he is (even to the point of knocking on the door of the U21 England national team), currently on a long term deal with Hearts, £500K is a bit of an insult to be honest. He is worth three times that IMO, as an opening offer. I doubt Hearts would let him go for less than that.

I actually tend to agree with you! The Clarets really are going to have to go in with better deals by the looks of it. Now that Laffs looks certain to be going,I hope the money from that deal can up the ante to secure both Paterson & Driver and quickly before they are poached from beneath our feet.

To me it is a case of us openly tapping up players to get the player to force the move himself. Its happened against us with many strikers recently that we have lost. Remember Wigan putting in really low offers for Blake. Ok Birmingham bought him, but Blake wanted out once the interest was shown. Maybe the players agent will tell him to move for the big pay deal they would both get. Our real offers should be going in on June the 1st. By then the player will already want to come, so we could get him or them cheaper than what the selling clubs value them at.